It just happens I write fast and always have done.
BORIS JOHNSONBut if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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